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Section 3 - Conguration
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Section 4 - Security
Wireless Security
This section will show you the dierent levels of security you can use to protect your data from intruders. The DAP-1160L oers
the following types of security:
• WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy)
• WPA-Personal (Wi-Fi Protected Access)
• WPA-Enterprise (Wi-Fi Protected Access)
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What is WEP?
WEP, or Wired Equivalent Privacy, is a Wi-Fi security protocol that encrypts transmitted data. WEP is an older protocol that is
not believed to be as eective anymore.
WEP uses a passphrase or key to authenticate your wireless connection. For 64-Bit WEP, the key is an alpha-numeric password
that is 10 hex digits or an ASCII password consisting of 5 text characters. The hex digits are either numbers from 0 to 9 or
letters from A to F. For 128-Bit WEP, the key is an alpha-numeric password that is 26 hex digits or an ASCII password with 13
text characters.
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Congure WEP
It is recommended to enable encryption on your wireless access point before your wireless network adapters. Please establish
wireless connectivity before enabling encryption. Your wireless signal may degrade when enabling encryption due to the
added overhead.
1. Log into the web-based conguration by opening a web browser and entering the IP address of the access point (dlinkap.
local). Click on Setup and then click Wireless Setup on the left
side.
2. Next to Security Mode, select WEP.
Note: Choosing WEP means the device will only operate in
Legacy wireless mode (802.11B/G) and will not provide 802.11N
performance.
3. Next to WEP Encryption, select 64Bit(10 hex digits), 64Bit(5
ASCII characters), 128Bit(26 hex digits) or 128Bit(13 ASCII
characters).
4. Next to WEP Key 1, enter a set of digits or letters from A to F, or a
string of text.
5. Next to Authentication, select Both or Shared Key.
6. Click Save Settings at the top of the window to save your settings. If you are conguring the access point with a wireless
adapter, you will lose connectivity until you enable WPA-PSK on your adapter and enter the same passphrase as you did on
the access point.
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What is WPA?
WPA, or Wi-Fi Protected Access, is a Wi-Fi standard that was designed to improve the security features of WEP (Wired Equivalent
Privacy).
The 2 major improvements over WEP:
• Improved data encryption through the Temporal Key Integrity Protocol (TKIP). TKIP scrambles the keys using a
hashing algorithm and, by adding an integrity-checking feature, ensures that the keys haven’t been tampered
with. WPA2 is based on 802.11i and uses Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) instead of TKIP.
• User authentication, which is generally missing in WEP, through the extensible authentication protocol (EAP).
WEP regulates access to a wireless network based on a computer’s hardware-specic MAC address, which is
relatively simple to be snied out and stolen. EAP is built on a more secure public-key encryption system to
ensure that only authorized network users can access the network.
WPA-PSK/WPA2-PSK uses a passphrase or key to authenticate your wireless connection. The key is an alpha-numeric password
between 8 and 63 characters long. The password can include symbols (!?*&_) and spaces. This key must be the exact same key
entered on your wireless bridge or access point.
WPA/WPA2 incorporates user authentication through the Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP). EAP is built on a more
secure public key encryption system to ensure that only authorized network users can access the network.
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Congure WPA/WPA2 Personal
It is recommended to enable encryption on your wireless access point before your wireless network adapters. Please establish
wireless connectivity before enabling encryption. Your wireless signal may degrade when enabling encryption due to the
added overhead.
1. Log into the web-based conguration by opening a web browser
and entering the IP address of the access point (dlinkap.local). Click
on Setup and then click Wireless Setup on the left side.
2. Next to Security Mode, select WPA-Personal.
3. Next to WPA Mode, select Auto(WPA or WPA2), WPA2 only, or
WPA only.
4. Next to Cipher Type, select TKIP, AES, or TKIP and AES.
5. Next to Pre-Shared Key, enter a key. The key is entered as a
passphrase in ASCII format at both ends of the wireless connection.
The passphrase must be between 8-63 characters.
6. Click Save Settings at the top of the window to save your settings. If you are conguring the access point with a wireless
adapter, you will lose connectivity until you enable WPA-PSK on your adapter and enter the same passphrase as you did on
the access point.
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Congure WPA/WPA2 Enterprise
It is recommended to enable encryption on your wireless access point before your wireless network adapters. Please establish
wireless connectivity before enabling encryption. Your wireless signal may degrade when enabling encryption due to the
added overhead.
1. Log into the web-based conguration by opening a web browser
and entering the IP address of the access point (dlinkap.local). Click
on Setup and then click Wireless Setup on the left side.
2. Next to Security Mode, select WPA-Enterprise.
3. Next to WPA Mode, select Auto(WPA or WPA2), WPA2 only, or WPA
only.
4. Next to Cipher Mode, select TKIP, AES, or Auto.
5. Next to RADIUS Server IP Address, enter the IP Address of your RADIUS
server.
6. Next to RADIUS Server Port, enter the port you are using with your
RADIUS server. 1812 is the default port.
7. Next to RADIUS Server Shared Secret, enter the security key.
8. Click Advanced to enter settings for a secondary RADIUS Server.
9. Click Save Settings to save your settings.
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Section 5 - Connecting to a Wireless Network
Connect to a Wireless Network
Using Windows® XP
Windows® XP users may use the built-in wireless utility (Zero Conguration Utility). The following instructions are for Service
Pack 2 users. If you are using another company’s utility or Windows® 2000, please refer to the user manual of your wireless
adapter for help with connecting to a wireless network. Most utilities will have a “site survey” option similar to the Windows®
XP utility as seen below.
If you receive the Wireless Networks Detected bubble, click on
the center of the bubble to access the utility.
or
Right-click on the wireless computer icon in your system tray
(lower-right corner next to the time). Select View Available
Wireless Networks.
The utility will display any available wireless networks in your area.
Click on a network (displayed using the SSID) and click the Connect
button.
If you get a good signal, but cannot access the Internet, check you
TCP/IP settings for your wireless adapter. Refer to the Networking
Basics section in this manual for more information.
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Congure WPA-PSK
It is recommended to enable WEP on your wireless bridge or access point before conguring your wireless adapter. If you are
joining an existing network, you will need to know the WEP key being used.
1. Open the Windows® XP Wireless Utility by right-clicking
on the wirele ss computer i con in your sys tem tray
(lower-right corner of screen). Select View Available Wireless
Networks.
2. Highlight the wireless network (SSID) you would like to
connect to and click Connect.
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3. The Wireless Network Connection box will appear. Enter the WPA-PSK
passphrase and click Connect.
It may take 20-30 seconds to connect to the wireless network. If the
connection fails, please verify that the WPA-PSK settings are correct. The
WPA-PSK passphrase must be exactly the same as on the wireless access
point.
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Using Windows Vista®
Windows Vista® users may use the convenient, built-in wireless utility. Follow these instructions:
From the Start menu, go to Control Panel, and then click on
Network and Sharing Center.
The utility will display any available wireless networks in your
area. Click on a network (displayed using the SSID) under Select a
network to connect to and then click the Connect button.
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Click Connect Anyway to continue.
The utility will display the following window to indicate a
connection is being made.
The nal window indicates the establishment of a successful
connection.
The next two pages display the windows used to connect to either
a WEP or a WPA-PSK wireless network.
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Congure WPA-PSK
It is recommended to enable WEP on your wireless bridge or access point before conguring your wireless adapter. If you are
joining an existing network, you will need to know the WEP key being used.
Click on a network (displayed using the SSID) using WPA-PSK under
Select a network to connect to and then click the Connect button.
Enter the appropriate security key or passphrase in the field
provided and then click the Connect button.
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